Jewish leaders were skeptical about the report, and angry about the way it has been handled
A new chapter in the tragic story of the deadliest attack against Jews since the end of World War II was written last week.
A former Mossad agent appearing on an Israeli television program claimed that he provided Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman with evidence in 2015 proving that then-president of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was engaged in a cover-up regarding Iran’s bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in 1994, an attack that killed 85 people.
Uzi Shaya told Ilana Dayan, the host of the news show Uvda, that he provided Nisman documents showing that Iran had transferred millions of dollars to accounts belonging to Kirchner’s son and other relatives in the Cayman Islands, Seychelles, and Cyprus. The payments were made to halt a government probe into the bombings, which have since been directly linked to Hezbollah, and its sponsor Iran. Weeks after Nisman received the documents, and one day before Nisman was set to testify against Kirchner, he was found dead in his apartment.
Now an Argentine prosecutor pursuing the Nisman case says he wants testimony from Shaya and Dayan. Kirchner is currently Argentina’s vice president.
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